
Tag / Barney & Clyde
Yes, Barney’s screwed, but where’s the punchline?

Concentrate, Geezers!

Andréa submitted this.
I checked, and the show hasn’t been produced since 1991, with the final rerun airing in 1993.
Okay, at the risk of somebody pointing out that I’m getting older…

… this doesn’t make sense to me.
Let’s start with why Barney thinks there’s any justification for suing, and then move out to everything else going on here.
(And as a side note, it might be dangerous this week for Barney to suggest he doesn’t understand things because he’s getting older)
The Funkywinkerbeanization of Barney and Clyde???




So over the course of four days, in a strip that’s never really touched on a serious topic, we’ve suddenly gotten a dead baby and Grandpa’s apparent Alzheimer’s…
See what?

Actually, there isn’t much about the last two panels that I understand.
Duck Fun

Okay, not to be picky here…

…but is this actually “sarcasm”?
Yes, Barney’s old enough to have used a slide rule (though probably not); what’s the joke, though?

The Second Darrin

(Just to get it out of the way for anybody who doesn’t know, Dick Sergeant replaced Dick York as Elizabeth Montgomery’s husband Darrin in Bewitched in 1969)